• Anuran responses to spatial patterns of agricultural landscapes in Argentina 

      Suarez, Romina Paula; Zaccagnini, Maria Elena; Babbitt, Kimberly J.; Calamari, Noelia Cecilia; Natale, Guillermo Sebastian; Cerezo, Alexis; Codugnello, Nadia; Boca, Rosa Teresa; Damonte, María Jimena; Vera Candioti, Josefina; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio (2016-12)
      Context: Amphibians are declining worldwide and land use change to agriculture is recognized as a leading cause. Argentina is undergoing an agriculturalization process with rapid changes in landscape structure. Objectives: ...
    • Assessing wildfire exposure in the Wildland-Urban Interface area of the mountains of central Argentina 

      Argañaraz, Juan Pablo; Radeloff, Volker C.; Bar-Massada, A.; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Scavuzzo, Carlos Marcelo; Bellis, Laura Marisa (2017-07-01)
      Wildfires are a major threat to people and property in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) communities worldwide, but while the patterns of the WUI in North America, Europe and Oceania have been studied before, this is not the ...
    • Carbon emissions from agricultural expansion and intensification in the Chaco 

      Baumann, Matthias; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio; Piquer Rodriguez, María; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Griffiths, Patrick; Hostert, Patrick; Kuemmerle, Tobias (Wiley, 2017-05)
      Carbon emissions from land‐use changes in tropical dry forest systems are poorly understood, although they are likely globally significant. The South American Chaco has recently emerged as a hot spot of agricultural expansion ...
    • Changes in bird assemblages in a wetland ecosystem after 14 years of intensified cattle farming 

      Sica, Yanina; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Pidgeon, Anna Michle; Travaini, Alejandro; Bustamante, Javier; Radeloff, Volker C.; Quintana, Rubén D. (2018-05)
      Human activities have modified wetlands all over the word. Water control structures that are frequently implemented in these ecosystems to keep lands free of flooding can decrease or degrade habitat for biodiversity. The ...
    • Combined effects of agrochemical contamination and forest loss on anuran diversity in agroecosystems of east-central Argentina 

      Suarez, Romina Paula; Cappelletti, Sandra Mailen; Solari, Laura María; Goijman, Andrea Paula; Cristos, Diego Sebastian; Rojas, Dante Emanuel; Krug, Pamela; Babbitt, Kimberly J.; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio (Elsevier, 2020-11)
      Agricultural expansion and intensification has led globally to a rapid landscape structure change and high agrochemical use resulting in habitat loss and degraded environmental quality. Co-occurrence of landscape change ...
    • Crop species transferability of G-SSR and EST-SSR markers to Neltuma affinis spreng 

      Soldati, Maria Cristina; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Morales, Matias; Pomponio, Maria Florencia; Zelener, Noga (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (España), 2024-03-18)
      Aim of study: To examine the transferability of G-SSR (genomic simple sequence repeats) and EST-SSR (expressed sequence tag simple sequence repeats) markers developed for several Neltuma species to N. affinis, a species ...
    • Deforestation and cattle expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco 1987–2012 

      Baumann, Matthias; Israel, Christoph; Piquer Rodriguez, María; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Volante, Jose Norberto; Kuemmerle, Tobias (2017-04)
      The dry forests of Latin America are among the most dynamic deforestation frontiers in the world and are important carbon and biodiversity reservoirs. Our knowledge on the spatial patterns of deforestation and its proximate ...
    • Drivers of agricultural land - use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions 

      Piquer Rodriguez, María; Butsic, V.; Gartner, P.; Macchi, Leandro; Baumann, Matthias; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Volante, Jose Norberto; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio; Kuemmerle, Tobias (2018-02)
      Agricultural expansion and intensification in South America's dry forests and grasslands increase agricultural production, but also result in major environmental trade-offs. The Pampas and Chaco regions of Argentina have ...
    • Effects of past and future land conversions on forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco 

      Piquer Rodriguez, María; Torella, Sebastián Andrés; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Volante, Jose Norberto; Somma, Daniel Jorge; Ginzburg, Rubén G.; Kuemmerle, Tobias (Springer, 2015-05)
      Context: Land-use change is the main driver of habitat loss and fragmentation worldwide. The rate of dry forest loss in the South American Chaco is among the highest in the world, mainly due to the expansion of soybean ...
    • Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot 

      Law, Elizabeth A.; Macchi, Leandro; Baumann, Mathias; Decarre, Julieta; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Levers, Christian; Mastrangelo, Matías Enrique; Murray, Francisco; Müller, Daniel; Piquer‐Rodriguez, María; Torres, Ricardo; Wilson, Kerrie A.; Kuemmerle, Tobias (Elsevier, 2021-10)
      Strong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers, particularly in the world's rapidly disappearing tropical and subtropical dry forests. Pathways to mitigate these trade-offs are ...
    • Fire Regime, Climate, and Vegetation in the Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina 

      Argañaraz, Juan Pablo; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Zak, Marcelo Román; Bellis, Laura Marisa (2015)
      Wildfires are a primary disturbance in the Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina, with approximately 2 152 000 ha burned between 1993 and 2012. However, little is known about the spatial and temporal patterns of fires and their ...
    • Future Land-Use Changes and the Potential for Novelty in Ecosystems of the United States 

      Martinuzzi, Sebastián; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Lugo, Ariel E.; Radeloff, Volker C. (2015-12)
      Rapid global changes due to changing land use, climate, and non-native species are altering environmental conditions, resulting in more novel communities with unprecedented species combinations. Understanding how future ...
    • Glossy privet (Ligustrum lucidum) invasion decreases Chaco Serrano forest bird diversity but favors its seed dispersers 

      Bellis, Laura Marisa; Astudillo, Agustina; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Dardanelli, Sebastian; Landi, Marcos Alejandro; Hoyos, Laura (Springer, 2020-11)
      Glossy privet (Ligustrum lucidum) is an aggressive invasive plant that replaces native forests and forms dense stands without understory in central Argentina. However, the consequences of these changes in terms of vegetation ...
    • Land use changes and bird diversity in subtropical forests: urban development as the underlying factor 

      Silvetti, Luna Emilce; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Solari, Laura María; Arcamone, Julieta Rocio; Bellis, Laura Marisa (Springer, 2022-12-15)
      The Serrano Chaco forest is the least extended Gran Chaco forest type with a long his tory of human disturbances, such as ranching, urbanization, fires, an exotic tree species expansion, which have altered natural vegetation ...
    • Multiscale spatial planning to maintain forest connectivity in the Argentine Chaco in the face of deforestation 

      Torella, Sebastián Andrés; Piquer Rodriguez, María; Levers, Christian; Ginzburg, Rubén G.; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Kuemmerle, Tobias (Resilience Alliance, 2018)
      Agricultural expansion threatens biodiversity due to habitat loss and fragmentation. In the Gran Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot, rampant cropland and pasture expansion raise concerns about the sustainability of these ...
    • Non-monotonic vegetation activity trends in the Lower Delta of the Paraná River: masking evidence of wetland degradation? 

      Aquino, Diego Sebastián; Sica, Yanina Vanesa; Quintana, Rubén Darío; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio (Elsevier, 2021-09-14)
      To understand the consequences of unsustainable management practices and global change, analyzing the patterns of ecosystem functioning and land degradation is as important as quantifying the spatio-temporal patterns of ...
    • The potential impact of economic policies on future land-use conversions in Argentina 

      Piquer Rodriguez, María; Baumann, Matthias; Butsic, V.; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Volante, Jose Norberto; Müller, D.; Kuemmerle, Tobias (2018)
      Agricultural expansion and intensification drive the conversion of natural areas worldwide. Scenarios are powerful tools to explore possible future changes in agricultural land use, how these may affect the environment, ...
    • The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco 

      Fehlenberg, Verena; Baumann, Matthias; Gasparri, Néstor Ignacio; Piquer Rodriguez, María; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Kuemmerle, Tobias (2017-07)
      South America’s tropical dry forests and savannas are under increasing pressure from agricultural expansion. Cattle ranching and soybean production both drive these forest losses, but their relative importance remains ...
    • Trade‐offs between biodiversity and agriculture are moving targets in dynamic landscapes 

      Macchi, Leandro; Decarre, Julieta; Goijman, Andrea Paula; Mastrangelo, Matías Enrique; Blendinger, Pedro G.; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Murray, Francisco; Piquer‐Rodriguez, María; Semper-Pascal, Asunción; Kuemmerle, Tobias (Wiley, 2020-07)
      Understanding how biodiversity responds to intensifying agriculture is critical to mitigating the trade‐offs between them. These trade‐offs are particularly strong in tropical and subtropical deforestation frontiers, yet ...
    • Unveiling the increasingly altered patterns of wetland ecosystem functional diversity in the lower Delta of the Paraná River 

      Aquino, Diego Sebastián; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Quintana, Rubén Dario (Wiley, 2022-07-08)
      Since climate, environmental and anthropic controls affect ecosystem functioning simul taneously, wetlands are permanently changing at different spatio–temporal scales. Thus, regionalizations based not only on structural, ...